The River Valley Conference is a high school sports Conference in northeastern and two high schools in a southern suburbs is "Illinois Lutheran and Beecher High School in Illinois, United States. The conference is part of the Illinois High School Association. The conference started around 1940 as the Kankakee Valley Conference, making up schools from the Kankakee County and Will County area. The conference had split into two divisions (Kan-Will and Will-Ro-Kee) in 1953 to make football scheduling more manageable, but maintained the conference in basketball and other sports. With the Iroquois and Vermilion Valley conferences folding, the KVC took on some of their members, prompting the change to its current name. The biggest shift since then occurred in 2006, as its larger schools left to join schools with similar membership, leaving the RVC as a rural, smaller school conference. In 2020, Grace Christian became a full IHSA member, and joined the RVC. This brought the number of teams up to eight. Momence and Clifton Central are set to join the RVC in 2021, due to the dissolving of the Sangamon Valley Conference. This will bring the conference up to 10 teams.
Membership Current School Location Mascot Colors Areas County IHSA Enrollment Class Year Joined Previous Conference Beecher Beecher Bobcats South Suburbs Will 334 2A pre-1948 Clifton Central Clifton Comets East Illinois Iroquois 278 2A 2021 Sangamon Valley Donovan Donovan Wildcats East Illinois Iroquois 71 1A 1989 Iroquois Gardner-South Wilmington Gardner Panthers Northeast Illinois Grundy 153 1A 1989 Vermilion Valley Grace Christian Academy Kankakee Crusaders East Illinois Kankakee 71 1A 2020 Grant Park Grant Park Dragons East Illinois Kankakee 126 1A pre-1948 Illinois Lutheran Crete Chargers South Suburbs Will 86 1A 2006 Tollway Momence Momence Redskins East Illinois Kankakee 302 2A 2021 Sangamon Valley St. Anne St. Anne Cardinals East Illinois Kankakee 206 1A pre-1948 Tri-Point Cullom Chargers East Illinois Livingston 97 1A 2011 Sangamon Valley
Former Note: records before 1948-49 are incomplete. Some teams may have played in the conference before the date recorded, other schools may have played in the conference's early years. School Location Mascot Colors County Year Joined Previous Conference Year Left Conference Joined Bonfield Bonfield Braves Kankakee pre-1940 1941 none (consolidated into Reddick) Crete-Monee1 Crete Warriors Will 1940 none (new school) 1962 Southeast Suburban R.U.C.E.2 Reddick Bulldogs Kankakee 1944 1956 Northeast Bishop McNamara3 Kankakee Irish Kankakee pre-1948 1989 Chicago Catholic Bradley-Bourbonnais Bradley Boilermakers Kankakee pre-1948 1962 Southeast Suburban Gilman Gilman Owls Iroquois pre-1948 1962 Vermilion Valley Manteno Manteno Panthers Kankakee pre-1948 2006 Interstate 8 Momence Momence Redskins Kankakee pre-1948 2006 Sangamon Valley Peotone Peotone Blue Devils Will pre-1948 2006 Interstate 8 Central Clifton Comets Iroquois 1950 none (new school) 1980 Wauseca Herscher4 Herscher Tigers Kankakee 1950 Vermilion Valley 2006 Interstate 8
Known as Crete until 1948. Known as Reddick until 1950. Known as St. Patrick until 1955. Herscher played concurrently in the KVC and VVC from 1950 to 1954.
See also List of Illinois High School Association member conferences
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